2026
Where the City Sends Its Water
When the Rain Reveals the City For several days, my wife and I have stayed at…
When Knowledge No Longer Needs a Room
A Room Organized Like a Machine The modern office began by borrowing the logic of the…
The Downloadable Mind
The Brain That Leaves the Cloud The idea that an artificial intelligence model can be downloaded…
The Long Form of a Thinking Life
The Invitation to Stay Open a publication such as Engelsberg Ideas and the screen begins to…
The Voice of a Finite Life
A Stone, a Body, and a Conscious Life A stone in front of us appears to…
The Unequal Freedom to Leave
The Inequality That Did Not Produce a Revolution An economy can become more unequal without becoming…
The Long Tail of Intelligence
When a Skill File Becomes More Than an Instruction The conversation began with a practical question…
The Guardians of Intelligence
When Security Became a Question of Authority On July 27, 2026, NVIDIA announced the Open Secure…
Books for the Market, Books for a Life
The Ranking That Opened a Different Question A ranking of bestselling novels in Japan recently gave…
The Book Beside the Modem
Waiting for the Page to Arrive My first experiences of the internet in the late 1990s…
The House Built by Writing
The Beginning Without a Blueprint When I started Tom’s Blog in 2019, I chose one of…
The Faith We Sang Together
The Hymns That Remember Us Only after many decades do we begin to understand what certain…